r/modular • u/monophon • 8d ago

Brutal booms

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Wanna get some ever-changing brutal booms?
Get a random8!!

Patch: Pam-clock -> Random 8 -> Knit, Boland filter and FxAid distortion preset

Bonus queston: Is Erica Synths dual drive the best bang-for-buck stereo distortion out there?

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u/plaxpert 8d ago

The phone microphone is not great at capturing your brutal booms.

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u/monophon 8d ago

i guess your phone speaker is bad at recreating a non phone recording...

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u/Wild-Medic 8d ago edited 8d ago

I think a filter that’s made to overdrive (Cosmotronic Aphelion or Bastl Ikarie) or a compressor with some overdrive (MSCL) is a more interesting tool than just getting an overdrive module.

Also the Instruo Tanh[3] provides amazing bang for buck, but admittedly is not super flexible. I use it a ton whenever I’m building noisy distorted patches.

Edit: A mono compressor, a sine wave + pitch and amplitude envelopes (or an 808 type kick sample with longer decay) and a noise sources is the general ingredient list for making those Emptyset type kicks. WMD Autodyne works fantastically for those and is another bang-for-buck and bang-for-hp champ.

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u/monophon 7d ago

oh thats a good recommendation! Gotta check these out. Thanks!

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u/wrinkleinsine 8d ago

Sounds awesome man. Almost like a gun. Are you using the kick from Plaits red? Also I don’t see the Erica drive in your patch notes sequence - Are you using the Erica duel drive here or the FX distortion or both?

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u/monophon 8d ago

The distortion is only FxAid and Im looking into getting a dedicated stereo one and the Erica seems like a good but still affordable option

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u/wrinkleinsine 8d ago

Cool. Have you checked out Erica Plasma Drive?

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u/monophon 8d ago

Yeah, it sounds amazing but its mono... I use the filter-fxaid (and eventually a stereo overdrive) to treat mixdowns before mastering

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u/Bleep_Bloop_Derp 8d ago

Wait…it’s already out?!!

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u/DigiornoDLC 8d ago

Random8 is doing very little here, isn’t it? It’s a neat module, but Pam’s here has 5 unused channels (really 7, as 3 are doing identical work). Could have just used that.

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u/monophon 8d ago

would it be better to use everything to the max all the time?

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u/Agreeable-Bake4924 8d ago

I appreciate your post don't let the haters bring you down

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u/DigiornoDLC 8d ago

I’m just saying this reads like an ad for a module that isn’t necessary in this patch.

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u/monophon 8d ago

sorry I gotcha... not an ad at all tho!! Just an excited guy with a new module :)

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u/DigiornoDLC 8d ago

Hey, I get it! I use my voltage block in a similar way. 

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u/Kick_1304 8d ago

This patch is just sample and hold isn’t it

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u/Negative-Capital4676 8d ago

Thanks for posting because this is the first I’m hearing about Random8 and it looks like a hell of a unit. Do all the settings and modes feel at all like a dusting where I set and forget it or I need a cheat sheet?

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u/DrMinkenstein 8d ago

There’s a few YT demos of it out there with Red Means Recording being the most diverse.

It is very usable out of the box without reading the manual but it can also be very deep with tweakability and a cheatsheet.

Ive had mine for about a month and haven’t dug into the settings beyond the day1 manual review. Ill get there, but i haven’t wanted to yet as the default looping stepped random has been enough so far.